№18, (2006)

In 2002 Ukraine announced its policy of Euro-Atlantic integration, with NATO membership as the ultimate goal. During the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine, election frontrunners avoided the...

Ukraine has just participated a second time in a meeting of the 42 countries that signed the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management....

In 2003 the Vinnytsia Oblast Ethnographic Museum obtained a set of personal papers from the archive of Hnat Yastrubetsky, a little known Ukrainian cultural and musical figure of the 1920s. Among the...

Did the Ukrainian government react adequately to the incident involving an American merchant ship that was blocked in the port of Feodosia? Who stands to gain from this kind of provocation? The Day...

“This project is based on 1984 technical specifications, and there seems to be no end to it. We shall see what happens next. There will be a special announcement on this matter,” Russian Defense...

“You can’t wait for handouts from the government. You have to grab a pitchfork and fight for freedom for Ukrainian books,” say the publishing duo, the Kapranov brothers. Book-publishing is not a...

Since childhood I have heard and learned many Ukrainian folk songs. But when I became an adult and first heard Nina Matvienko, I couldn’t understand where she got her deep timbre and her powerful...

Dietmar Studemann, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, has held this post for almost six years. Even though his diplomatic mission will end...

On June 2 the Crimean parliament held an unscheduled session to form a new government for this autonomous republic. Seventy-five out of 93 registered deputies voted to install Viktor Plakyda, a...

The language of culture can quell the current feud between Ukraine and Russia: this recipe for improving Ukrainian-Russian relations comes from Valentyna Sliusarchuk, director of the Library of...

The 1 st All-Ukrainian Competition of Patriotic Bards’ Songs, dedicated to Roman Shukhevych, recently took place in Hukiv, a village in Chemerivtsi raion, Khmelnytsky oblast. The songs of the bards...

Fabio Fabbri, the Italian Ambassador to Ukraine, gave a reception in Kyiv to celebrate Republic Day, Italy’s national holiday. The ceremony was held at the National Philharmonic, with carabineers...

A musical fountain named Thumbelina was unveiled on June 1, International Children’s Day, next to the Kyiv Puppet Theater at 1a Hrushevsky Street. The bronze heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s...

About 10 years ago I was very surprised by what a friend of mine told me about the United States: there are a lot of street people, who behave aggressively, and if a smelly tramp sits down next to...

June 5 marks the Journalists’ Day in Ukraine, as per presidential edict signed in May 1994 and timed to coincide with the date of the Ukrainian Journalists’ Union’s accession to the International...